Her father, Dr. Deepak Pandya believed in the philosophy of Gandhi. Which is why Sunita Williams was influenced with the Gandhian school of thought. So, during her visit, Williams also paid her respects at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, the residence of Mahatma Gandhi during India's struggle for independence. Williams' father, Deepak Pandya, hailed from Jhulasan village in the Mehsana district and she is a cousin of former BJP minister Haren Pandya, who was assassinated during his routine morning walk ... Sunita Williams' father, Deepak Pandya, is from Gujarat, and her mother, Ursuline Bonnie Zalokar, is Slovenian-American. She is married to Michael J. Williams. Washington: An ecstatic and very relieved Deepak Pandya, father of Sunita Williams, has thanked India for all the support through Sunita’s space sojourn. Speaking to Times Now, Pandya began by enumerating some of the to-do’s on the astronaut’s itinerary after she returned home.
